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Hi,

 

Hope I am posting this on the right place as I am new to this forum....

 

 

For the last 2 months I was using Mandriva 2005LE and last week I changed to mandriva 2006 RC2. It was a fresh installation. But I am facing some problems here.

 

The first one is I am unable to share any folder.... this is the error I am getting.

 

"An error occurred while trying to share folder '/home/drifter/Windows'. Make sure that the Perl script 'fileshareset' is set to suid root."

 

 

The Linux PC is networked using samba with XP and I can see XP shares and Mdkgroup from my XP PC...

 

Looks like this is new...this package is not there in 2005LE.....

 

Could someone help me on this please....

 

Thanks

:juggle:

 

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> Hope I am posting this on the right place as I am

> new to this forum....

Yes, this is the right place for cooker comments

and questions.

 

> For the last 2 months I was using Mandriva 2005 LE

> and last week I changed to mandriva 2006 RC2. It was

> a fresh installation. But I am facing some problems here.

 

2006 RC2 ( as in Release Candidate 2 )

 

> The first one is I am unable to share any folder....

 

The number of bugs fixed from RC1 -> RC2 was nearly 200

and the number of changes was 3616. Since the release

of RC2 I suggest that Mandriva Development team

is doing some soul searching on their schedule.

I myself found one serious bug in RC2 and that

has been acknowledged. But all has gone silent

since I submitted my thing.

 

Best is to get involved and understand how to use:

 

http://qa.mandriva.com/

 

I'm still learning how to navigate around in it

but I understand enough about it to find out if

what I found others found the same.

 

I recommend staying on Mandriva 2005 LE. It's a

stable, reliable and robust platform. Give the

2006 thing time to work itself out before committing

your important applications to it.

 

2006 "cooker" is not better then 2005 LE. It's

the lets test it and find the bugs version of

the next Mandriva release. And there are bugs.

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Guest KurtStraker

Same problem here.

fileshareset will not show up on an ordinary ls command, but in IceWM or Gnome it shows up in usr/bin/ and the script is used to share directories. You need to change suid so an ordinary user can run it with root privileges. This I have not quite figured out yet. When I check properties it seems fileshareset has the right permissions.

I hope you understand permissions mask and the bits AAABBBCCCDDD etc. ( I dont fully)

You want to set fileshareset to -rwsr-xr-x and here is what the book says (Linux Complete Second Edition) for an executable file named report.

[ramon]$ sudo chown root:root report

[ramon]$ sudo chmod 4755 report

[ramon]$ ls -l report

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root

 

I havent had the courage to try it yet and I am not even sure I know how to unhide fileshareset so I can chmod it. Will let you know results.

BTW you can share directories if you login as root but only root's directories. you could then change the permissions on your user's home directory to allow root to change it then let root share it, I think.

 

Let me know if any of this works

Kurt

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